Last night I participated in a Skype call with Andy Disher’s student ministry. The students submitted questions for us to answer. One of them was, “Is it okay for me, as a Christian, to date a non-Christian? Here are a few thoughts I shared: – if Christ is 1st place in your life, and you [...]

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I arrived to SYMC today and was bummed it wasn’t snowing. A quick check of the weather shows the snow is on its way.

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I’m not starting a clothing line, but I did get some jackets embroidered today to wear at the Simply Youth Ministry Conference this week. The place that did the work was awesome. They did the work while I waited and allowed me to videotape it with my iPhone. I had my brother-in-law speed it up. [...]

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I’m heading out to Chicago for the Simply Youth Ministry Conference on Thursday. Watch VolunteerYouthMinistry.com for summaries of what’s going on. There’s some good stuff coming this week! Also, if you’re on Twitter, watch for the #SYMC2010 hashtag. You can also follow me on Twitter. My Twitter name is dbeckner

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Today we had an incident at our Refinery Grill at Saddleback Church. It looks like there was a fire in the kitchen of our grill. However, there wasn’t a fire, there was just a smoke exhaust problem. The sight of the sprinklers going off is quite amazing. Here’s a video…

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Today I’m heading back to the classroom… to teach. A group of 1st graders will have me as their substitute teacher today. I haven’t taught in public schools in a few years. The last group of 1st graders I taught graduated high school last year. This should be an interesting day. I’m guessing I should [...]

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I’m reading How To Reach Your Full Potential for God by Charles F Stanley. I’m not very far into it yet, but I’m expecting it to be a great read. Here’s a quote that I thought to be especially useful for me and fellow volunteer youth workers who teach Bible study: A wise university professor [...]

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I came across this nugget tonight as I’m prepping to teach my small group. We’re studying Nehemiah 9. Verses 35-37 are about how the Israelites are living in the land God gave to them, but kings are enjoying all the blessings God intended for them. This was such a great reminder for my own life [...]

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Thanks to my friend Andrew Burden for sending this over. I love it.

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